{"id":19533,"date":"2026-11-08T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/?p=19533"},"modified":"2026-11-07T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:06:29","slug":"your-bank-account-wont-get-you-into-congress-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennygibson.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/your-bank-account-wont-get-you-into-congress-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Bank Account Won\u2019t Get You Into Congress Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oh, how I wish that were true. In fact, I’m having trouble resisting the urge to hope that it is. From buying votes to buying drinks to buying airtime, money has always played a role in elections. That role was greatly expanded by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010, and until that’s reversed, I fear corporations and political action committees will have an outsized presence in our elections. However, for at least one glorious round of voting, more U.S. citizens seemed repulsed by the existence of oligarchs than influenced by their spending.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>No matter how much or how little voters were influenced by the $12 billion spent on the 2026 campaign by Musk, Soros, and others, it is undeniable that they were not voting to support the current administration. Both chambers of congress were flipped from slim Republican majorities to less slim Democratic majorities. It’s been a while. Democrats did control both chambers in the 117th Congress (2021 & 2022), but the margin in the house was much slimmer (218-214) and the Senate was evenly split with the Vice President, a Democrat, breaking ties.<\/p>\n

This is the largest rebuke of the incumbent party since the Watergate Scandal impacted the 1974 election. It’s good to know when you’ve been scammed. It’s even better when, like so many voters in this election, you let others know that you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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